Just as the technology of printing altered and reduced the power of medieval guilds and the social power structure, so too will cryptologic methods fundamentally alter the nature of corporations and of government interference in economic transactions. Combined with emerging information markets, crypto anarchy will create a liquid market for any and all material which can be put into words and pictures. And just as a seemingly minor invention like barbed wire made possible the fencing-off of vast ranches and farms, thus altering forever the concepts of land and property rights in the frontier West, so too will the seemingly minor discovery out of an arcane branch of mathematics come to be the wire clippers which dismantle the barbed wire around intellectual property. Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!

I’m interested in building software that is organic, open-ended, and evolving… squishy computers. A squishy computer is pliable, re-shapable, open-ended, true to its materials as a universal machine.

“We’re building a platform, not a product”. If you hear this, run away. Platforms come from products, not the other way around.People don’t buy platforms. They buy one product at a time that somehow differentiates itself from every other product in their life. And then they move onto the next one. And the next one. You need to make standalone, great products, and if they can eventually all talk to each other 10 or 20 years down the line, then great.(Tony Fadell, founder of Nest, lead engineer who oversaw invention of the iPod)A product solves a specific problem for a specific user. Platforms have to start here too. Otherwise, they’re DOA.

Anti-folk (sometimes spelled antifolk) is a music genre that emerged in the 1980s in New York City, founded by musician, author and comedian, Lach, as a reaction to the commercialization of folk music. It is characterized by its DIY ethos, unconventional songwriting, and often humorous or satirical lyrics. Antifolk music was made to mock the perceived seriousness of the era's mainstream music scene,[1] and artists aim to protest with their mocking and clever lyrics.[2][3]

The American Colony of Jerusalem

citation-js (as a sidenote, really annoying library to work with)

and — here's the kicker — it's absolutely a requirement to enable Collection-level cascading settings.

Most heart-stopping writing comes from synthesizing the previously unarticulated in the momen

I am waiting for any evidence that our most provocative thinkers and writers are those who rely on elaborate, systematic note-taking systems

That is probably not you

As mentioned above, useReducer can accept a third parameter, which is an optional init function for creating the initial state lazily. It lets you extract logic for calculating the initial state outside of the reducer function, as seen below:

A host of next-generation battery technologies are already being developed by U.S. companies, including Ionic Materials, QuantumScape, Sila Nanotechnologies, Sion Power, and, Sionic Energy.

facets: { [K in keyof Facets]: FacetState<Facets[K]> };

The concept addresses not only personal or household energy use, but the total for the whole society, including embodied energy, divided by the population.

source map and native ESM support.

Weaver also avoided the temptation to exert his influence by insourcing funded research

Assign unique digital persistent identifiers18 to all scientific research and developmentawards19 and intramural research protocols that have appropriate metadata linking thefunding agency and their awardees through their digital persistent identifiers.

Federal agencies should also provide guidance to researchers that ensures the digitalrepositories used align, to the extent practicable,7 with the National Science andTechnology Council document entitled “Desirable Characteristics of DataRepositories for Federally Funded Research.”8

Variables are containers that hold values. My friend works with office facilities,and she organizes the office tools by putting them in boxes. She puts a labelon boxes to help workers know what’s inside without opening them. Variablesare like that; you can’t see what’s inside without checking

Many of Parks’ images are low-lit, with figures shown in shadow, reflected in mirrors or windows, and blurred in motion. Later Parks vividly described episodes from this assignment

he category of “review article” is far from clear-cut.4 It is often not obvious whether a particular publication is intended as a review, and a great many articles do at least some review work in citing previous literature

’ve long since given up looking for a political home in America, and so I didn’t feel the pull I might once have hearing him talk

We met at a diner called Sugar n’ Spice, where my dad used to take me after Karate class. I texted my best friend from Cincinnati, a black guy who had grown up in the vicinity, and he wrote back immediately. “I guess pancakes go perfect with white nationalism.”

It’s like bourgeois communists walking onto the factory floor and telling the workers, ‘Let us represent you!’”

“I think Trump is going to run again in 2024,” he said. “I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”“And when the courts stop you,” he went on, “stand before the country, and say—” he quoted Andrew Jackson, giving a challenge to the entire constitutional order—“the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.”This is a description, essentially, of a coup.

“We are in a late republican period,” Vance said later, evoking the common New Right view of America as Rome awaiting its Caesar. “If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.”

“I do think we’re at a moment of crossroads,” he said. “And if we play it wrong, it’s the Dark Ages.” Masters has publicly said he thinks “everybody should read” the Unabomber’s anti-tech manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future,” which may sound strange for a young tech executive running to serve in the United States Senate. But to Masters, Kaczynski’s critique was a useful analysis of how technology shapes our world and how “degrading and debasing” it could be to human lives.

“They’re going to come for everything,” she said. “And I think it’s sinister—not that I think that people who want to pay attention to race issues are sinister. But I think that the globalization movement is using these divisive arguments in order to make people think that it’s a good thing.”This is the Cathedral at work.

What the fuck isn’t white supremacism?

Levy, who was a leftist recently enough that she cried when it became clear that Bernie Sanders wouldn’t be the Democratic presidential nominee, is friendly with Yarvin and has had him on the podcast she cohosts, Wet Brain—“Yeah, the Cathedral and blah blah,” she said when we got to talking about political media. But she said she’d never even heard of J.D. Vance or Blake Masters.

“I’m not, like, into politics,” the writer Honor Levy, a Catholic convert and Bennington grad, told me when I called her. “I just want to have a family someday.”

Yarvin had given people a way to articulate a notion that somehow felt subversive to say out loud in America—that history was headed in the wrong direction. “Somebody said something earlier that captured it for me,” Laurenson said, just before they had to leave to go to a slightly hush-hush private dinner with Vance and a few others. “They said, ‘You can be here and know you’re not alone.’ ”

He argued that Nelson Mandela, once head of the military wing of the African National Congress, had endorsed terror tactics and political murder against opponents, and said anyone who claimed “St. Mandela” was more innocent than Breivik might have “a mother you’d like to fuck.”

Yarvin’s writing from then is so radically right wing that it almost has to be read to be believed, like the time he critiqued the attacks by the Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik—who killed 77 people, including dozens of children at a youth camp—not on the grounds that terrorism is wrong but because the killings wouldn’t do anything effective to overthrow what Yarvin called Norway’s “communist” government

His criticisms of big tech as “enemies of Western civilization” often get lost in the run of Republican outrage over Trump being kicked off Twitter and Facebook, though they go much deeper than this. Vance believes that the regime has sold an illusive story that consumer gadgets and social media are constantly making our lives better, even as wages stagnate and technology feeds an epidemic of depression.

I wrote a piece that came across as critical of him. It expressed my deep hopelessness about the future of America. I figured he’d want nothing more to do with me. But the morning it was published he sent me a short, heartfelt email. He said that he’d been a bit “pained” to read in the piece that my parents disliked him but said he’d like to talk more. “I don’t see you as a member of the elite because I see you as independent of their ideological strictures and incentives,” he wrote. “But maybe I’m just saying that because I like you.”“Despair,” he signed off, “serves the regime.”

“This is a kind of burgeoning sect of thought,” he went on, “and it’s causing people who are in positions of larger influence and relative power to actually have to start looking into it.”

The microtask labor force, is,in the terminology of Derrida, a spectral phenomenon: "ghost workers"

testimentary

uilding a fluent API like this leads to some unusual API habits. One of the most obvious ones are setters that return a value. (In the order example with adds an order line to the order and returns the order.)

The simplest example is probably from Eric's timeAndMoney library. To make a time interval in the usual way we might see something like this: TimePoint fiveOClock, sixOClock; ... TimeInterval meetingTime = new TimeInterval(fiveOClock, sixOClock); The timeAndMoney library user would do it this way: TimeInterval meetingTime = fiveOClock.until(sixOClock)

Domain-specific development is the process of identifying the parts of your applications that can be modeled by using a domain-specific language, and then constructing the language and deploying it to the application developers.

you could write templates that take an airport plan and generate part of the software for baggage handling, as well as some of the user documents that describe the plan.

Well-known DSLs include regular expressions and SQL. Each DSL is much better than a general-purpose language for describing operations on text strings or a database, but much worse for describing ideas that are outside its own scope. Individual industries also have their own DSLs. For example, in the telecommunications industry, call description languages are widely used to specify the sequence of states in a telephone call, and in the air travel industry a standard DSL is used to describe flight bookings.